@astronomy.blue.bsky.social
Official announcements and information about the Astronomy feeds. This is a semi-automated account managed by @emily.space. Website: https://astronomy.blue | GitHub: https://github.com/bluesky-astronomy
🎉 The Astronomy feeds have new pinned posts! 🔭☄️
• The new pinned posts are now per-feed, so each feed has its own info & identity
• There are some lovely images in the link for each feed (including one from @ltno2.bsky.social)
• They include a link to a bespoke FAQ page for each feed, like this:
Spam over - sorry for clogging your timeline for a sec!
16.07.2025 09:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Welcome to the Stellar Astronomy feed!
• You need to sign up for your posts to appear here.
• Then, add #stellarastrononomy or #stellarastro to your post.
• Check out our other feeds!
See the FAQ for more info:
Welcome to the Heliophysics (Astro) feed!
• You need to sign up for your posts to appear here.
• Then, add #heliophysics or #solarastro to your post.
• Check out our other feeds!
See the FAQ for more info:
This feed exists for technical purposes.
16.07.2025 09:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Welcome to the AstroSci feed! Contains posts about astronomy and planetary science research.
• You need to sign up for your posts to appear here.
• Then, add ☄️ or #astrosci to your post.
• Check out our other feeds!
See the FAQ for more info:
Welcome to the Radio Astronomy feed!
• You need to sign up for your posts to appear here.
• Then, add #radioastronomy or #radioastro to your post.
• Check out our other feeds!
See the FAQ for more info:
This feed exists for technical purposes.
16.07.2025 09:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Welcome to the Planetary Science feed!
• You need to sign up for your posts to appear here.
• Then, add #planetaryscience or #planetsci to your post.
• Check out our other feeds!
See the FAQ for more info:
Welcome to the Milky Way feed!
• You need to sign up for your posts to appear here.
• Then, add #galactic or #galacticastro to your post.
• Check out our other feeds!
See the FAQ for more info:
Welcome to the Astro Software & Methods feed! Discuss software and stats for astro here.
• You need to sign up for your posts to appear here.
• Then, add #astromethods, #astrocoding or #astrocode to your post.
• Check out our other feeds!
See the FAQ for more info:
Welcome to the Astro Instrumentation feed! Discuss astronomy instrumentation here.
• You need to sign up for your posts to appear here.
• Then, add #instrumentation to your post.
• Check out our other feeds!
See the FAQ for more info:
Welcome to the History of Astronomy feed!
• You need to sign up for your posts to appear here.
• Then, add #astrohistory or #historyofastronomy to your post.
• Check out our other feeds!
See the FAQ for more info:
Welcome to the High Energy Astrophysics feed!
• You need to sign up for your posts to appear here.
• Then, add #highenergyastro to your post.
• Check out our other feeds!
See the FAQ for more info:
Welcome to the Extragalactic Astronomy feed!
• You need to sign up for your posts to appear here.
• Then, add #extragalactic or #extragalacticastro to your post.
• Check out our other feeds!
See the FAQ for more info:
Welcome to the Exoplanets feed!
• You need to sign up for your posts to appear here.
• Then, add #exoplanet or #exoplanets to your post.
• Check out our other feeds!
See the FAQ for more info:
Welcome to the Astronomy Education feed! Discuss astronomy education here.
• You need to sign up for your posts to appear here.
• Then, add #astroeducation or #astroedu to your post.
• Check out our other feeds!
See the FAQ for more info:
Welcome to the Cosmology feed!
• You need to sign up for your posts to appear here.
• Then, add #cosmology to your post.
• Check out our other feeds!
See the FAQ for more info:
Welcome to the Astrophotography feed!
• You need to sign up for your posts to appear here.
• Then, add #astrophoto, #astrophotos or #astrophotography to your post.
• Check out our other feeds!
See the FAQ for more info:
Welcome to the Astrosky feed! Contains all posts from all signed up users of the Astronomy feeds.
• You need to sign up for your posts to appear here.
• Check out our other feeds!
See the FAQ for more info:
Welcome to the Astronomy feed! Contains a filtered view of astronomy content on Bluesky.
• You need to sign up for your posts to appear here.
• Then, add 🔭, #astro or #astronomy to your post.
• Check out our other feeds!
See the FAQ for more info:
We're about to send lots of posts from this account, which will be the new main pinned posts for the Astronomy feeds - sorry for the spam!
16.07.2025 09:54 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0(x-posted & updated from @emily.space's original post)
20.06.2025 12:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We just posted a getting started guide on our website, with tips & advice on how to get started on Bluesky.
Share it with a colleague or friend who might like it here! 🔭☄️ #astrophotography
Reminder for the #exoplanets feed:
05.03.2025 14:35 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Important news about the Stellar Astronomy feed: we have removed #stars as a way to post to this feed due to false positives - as with the other subtopic feeds, it's only intended for scientific posts!
You can now only post to it with #stellarastronomy or #stellarastro.
Important news about the Milky Way feed #galactic:
We have removed the hashtag #milkyway as a way to post to the feed, as it was causing a huge number of false positives. The hashtags for the feed are now just #galactic or #galacticastro.
As a reminder, the feed is intended just for science posts!
For the next ~1 week, the main Astronomy feed will still include posts containing a 🪐, so your posts won't be completely missing from the feeds if you forget. #exoplanets
@emily.space and the mod team will also try to remind you!
We want to make sure that subtopic feeds are clean experiences to catch up on a specific subset of posts, and having so many false positives otherwise ruins that. #exoplanets
If you're looking for a science feed you can post to with an emoji, then the new AstroSci feed just needs a ☄️:
Important news about the #exoplanets feed:
We have removed the planet emoji as a way to post to the feed. Consistently, around ~50% of the posts to the feed are false positives, as 🪐 is a really common emoji.
You can still post to it with #exoplanets!
